Here are some examples of “haikiddles” (riddles done in haiku form). Students
should not name what the POS is in the haikiddle, since others in the class will be
trying to guess.
Here are some examples from one of my classes:
Noun
Very many types
They are everday objects
Possessive ones too!
Person, place, or thing
Common, proper, or concrete
Also collective
People can talk to
Things you can see, hear, or touch
Things that you can move
Common, proper, place
Concrete, abstract, collective
Are examples of
Audience or team
Common, proper, possessive
Person, place or thing
Pronoun
Subject or object
Possessive, indefinite
Match antecedent
I, you, he, she, it
Me, you, him, her, it, us, them
Are examples of?
These things replace nouns
He and she are examples
We replaces groups
Verb
Listening, walking
Singing and dancing are all
In this part of speech
What are you doing?
Running, jumping, or skipping
Keep the tense in mind
Express an action
Expresses state of being
Run, jump, walk, and play
May, be, do, should, have
Will, might, being, does, had, can
Am, are, is, was, were
An action word that
Tells that you’re doing something
There are many of them
Can express action
It expresses condition
or state of being
Be, being, been, am
are, is, was, were, do, does, did
state of being word
Preposition
Shows relationship
Between a noun, or pronoun
And some other words
A relationship
Between a noun or pronoun
And some other word
Against, along, for
The monkey went up the tree
Between, from, into
Over the river
And through the spooky forest
And up the tall tree
Through around and at
Are all possible options
Under and over
Shows a relation
Between a noun or pronoun
And some other word
Interjection
I am a word that
Is used to express a strong
Emotion, Wow! Oh,
A word or a phrase
It’s wow!, Whoa! Or oh, and yea
It’s a strong feeling
Wow is one of them
Expresses strong emotion
Gives words more power
A word or phrase used
To express an emotion
Wow! I’m happy
A word or phrase used
To express strong emotion
Now what is this word?
A word or a phrase
Used to express emotion
With Wow! Or Yahoo!
Conjunction
It rhymes with function
A word used to join more words,
Use FANBOYS to help
Words used to join words
Remember the word FANBOYS
Joins two main clauses
A word used to join
Words, clauses, or sentences
For, and, nor, but, or
Do not use these words
For, and, nor, but, or, yet, so
Starting a sentence
Don’t start a sentence
For, and, nor, but, or, yet, so
You will get bad grades
Article
They’re commonly used
An awful kid annoys me
A yellow flower
Can come before nouns
Commonly used adjective
They’re ‘a’, ‘an’, and ‘the’
An elephant and
A yellow flower were in
The meadow at dawn
The most common words
The words are “a”, “an”, and “the”
They are adjectives
Comes before a noun
Commonly used adjectives
Words “a”, “an”, and “the”
Adverb
Usually tells how
Hint: well, early, here. Softly
May end with ‘ly”
How, when, where, often
Most of the time ends in “ly”
Earlier softly
I can tell you how
I can modify a verb
Or an adjective
Modifies a verb
Tells how, when, where, how often
An action occurred
Modifies a verb
How, when, where, or how often
An action occurred
Early this morning
Happily walking to school
Lately, I was sick
Modifies a verb
And an adjective. Can you guess?
Early, softly, well
Adjective
Blue, red, green, orange
These are all examples of
A describing word
A green, heavy box
Describe the box for me please
Big, pink elephant
Tells what things are like
Long or short, tall or thin
What colors things are
A describing word
Like what kind, how many, how much
They describe a noun
It can describe things
And make them more specific
Red in included
It can modify
It describes nouns or pronouns
It answers questions